[TYPO3-dev] new EXT:categorize to categorize everything

[Martin Kutschker]

Dmitry Dulepov schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> Franz Koch wrote:
>> But there could be ONE gallery core with all basic features for dealing
>> with gallery records, dam or no dam, read from path features, comments
>> ect. and then only addon-extensions providing different views. Would be
>> the best user/editor experience in my eyes though.
> 
> Why don't we all have just one car model? The only car suitable for
> roads, forests, transporting heavy loads and at the same time with a
> very small fuel consumption and environment friendly?
> 
> Just because it is not possible. Same for galleries. They are all
> different because they serve different purpose. I never use DAM
> because I do not understand it and do not like the way it looks in
> BE (not user–friendly at all). Why would I want to have an
> extension, whose large part contains support for something that I
> will never use? It just takes memory and adds complexity, which in
> turn leads to bugs and harder maintenance. Why would I want it?

The idea was to have one base gallery extension that does the display
stuff. You would then have one additional extension for each storage
mechanism: file system, database, DAM, ....

The advantage I see is that I need only one configuration scheme. As the
"magic" gallery extension would support all display options I don't have
to worry if gallery extension X working on storage Y supports display
mode Z. I can trust that the gallery extension knows how to display the
stuff. All I need to do is to plug in the right storage extension.

Masi